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Water Quality Monitoring in the Source Water Areas for NYC
PHASE I Monitoring Sites


Site 12 - Dry Brook near Arkville - EBDDRYBK - IMAGE Gallery
Watershed Characteristics - Nutrient Chemistry - Molecular Tracers - Macroinvertebrates


Watershed Land Use/Land Cover Characteristics - Data Methodology Description

Latitude(dd): 42.144399
Longitude(dd): -74.619285
Watershed Area: 211.9 km2




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West of Hudson Land Use/Cover Map
Impervious Agriculture Forest Water Wetland
0.00% 10.54% 89.37% 0.09% 0.47%
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1990
2000

Total Population

1376
1623
Population Density (ind./km2)
6.49
7.66
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2000
2001
2002
# of SPDES Dischargers
1
1
1
Total Annual Volume
(normalized for watershed area)
0.00 cm
0.00 cm
0.00 cm

Ions, Nutrients, DOC/BDOC, and Particulates - click here for abbreviations/units

Sampling Dates and Discharge (Q) - Realtime Flow Monitoring
 
Ions/Nutr & DOC/BDOC
Organic Particles
Date
Q - m3/s
Date
Q - m3/s
2000
01AUG00
1.4268
01AUG00
1.4268
2001
12JUL01
0.9140
25JUL01
0.9140
2002
26JUN02
2.3611
26JUN02
2.3611

Data Table - Methodology
  2000 QUAL 2001 QUAL 2002 QUAL
pH 7.4   6.4   7.3  
ALKL 17   19   16  
COND 36   73   70  
CA 6   .   .  
MG 1.2   1.4   1.3  
NA 3.3   3.8   2.8  
K 0.4   0.5   0.4  
CL 5   6   3.8  
SO4 5.1   5.7   5.9  
NH4N 0.006 B 0.006 B 0.013  
NO3N 0.09   0.2   0.1  
ORGN 0.06   0.04   0.05  
SKN 0.07 B 0.05   0.06 B
TKN 0.09 B 0.06   0.08 B
SRP 0.01   0.007   0.007  
TDP 0.009 B 0.007 B 0.007 B
TP 0.011   0.008 B 0.01  
DOC 1166   792   1280  
BDOC .   95   294  
TSS 2.2   0.6 B 1.9  
TSS05 1.7   0.5   1.1  
TSS10 0.4   0.1 B 0.3  
TSS20 0.1   0.3 B 0.8  
VSS 0.8   0.2   0.7  
VSS05 0.6   0.3 B 0.4  
VSS10 0.1   0.04 B 0.09  
VSS20 0.05   0.09 B 0.3  

 

Molecular Tracer Analysis - click here for abbreviations/units

Sampling Dates and Discharges (Q) - Realtime Flow Monitoring
 
Summer Baseflow
Winter Baseflow
Date
Q - m3/s
Date
Q - m3/s
2000
24JUL00
1.4622
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2001
12JUL01
0.9140
07FEB01
2.1667
2002
24JUN02
3.1366
05FEB02
6.9985
2003    
15JAN03
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Data Table - Methodology
  2000(SB) QUAL 2001(WB) QUAL 2001(SB) QUAL 2002(WB) QUAL 2002(SB) QUAL 2003(WB) QUAL
FLU 0.0005 E 0.0004 HE 0.0006 E 0.002 E 0.0014 E 0.0009 E
PHE 0.002   0.00019 HE 0.0016 E 0.005 E 0.004 E 0.009 E
ANT 0.0005 E 0.0003 HE 0.0006 E 0.001 E 0.0007 E 0 NE
2MP 0.0018 E 0.0016 HE 0.0018 E 0.003 E 0.0011 E 0.006 E
1MP 0.0007 E 0.0002 HE 0.0003 E 0.0011 E 0.0005 E 0.004 E
FLR 0.0005 E 0.001 HE 0.0011 E 0.0017 E 0.003 E 0.005 E
PYR 0.0003 E 0.0006 HE 0.0005 E 0.0014 E 0.0011 E 0.005 E
BAA 0.0005 E 0.0015 HE 0.0002 E 0.0005 E 0.0004 E 0.005  
CHR 0.00019 E 0.0009 HE 0.0003 E 0.0004 E 0.0006 E 0 NE
BBF 0.0004 E 0 NE 0.00019 E 0.0006 E 0.0009 E 0.004 E
BKF 0.0002 E 0 NE 0.0003 E 0.0008 E 0.0011 E 0.003 E
BAP 0.0008 E 0.0004 HE 0.00018 E 0.0019 E 0.0008 E 0 NE
HHCB 0.003   0.003 HE 0.002 E 0.005 E 0.004 E 0.014  
AHTN 0.007 E 0.012 HE 0.003 E 0.006 E 0.011 E 0.012 E
CAF 0.003 E 0.0016   0.002 E 0.003 E 0.007   0.007 E
bCOP 0.012 E 0.007   0.007 E 0.02   0.02   0.015 E
EPI 0.003 E 0.0012 HE 0.0015 E 0.005 E 0.003 E 0.009 E
CHO 0.2   0.08   0.2   0.09   0.4   0.1  
aCOP 0.05 E 0.01   0.04   0.02   0.09   0.03  
aONE 0.018   0 NE 0.006 E 0.007 E 0.019   0.03  
bONE 0.018   0.014 HE 0.01   0.013   0.03   0.03  
SNOL 0.03 E 0.019 HE 0.015   0.04   0.06   0.03  

 

Benthic Macroinvertebrates - Methodology

Water Quality Score - WQS Definition



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